From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist," he said. "I have to be.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)You can't do anything about the len...
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings! the Hungarian police were screaming.That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. The...
Peace is our gift to each other.
Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.
The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
What is the difference between Jew and Christians? We all await the Messiah. You believe He has already come and gone, while we do not. I therefore propose that we await Him together. And when He appe...
I no longer ask You for either happiness or paradise; all I ask of You is to listen and let me be aware and worthy of Your listening. I no longer ask You to resolve my questions, only to receive them...
We do not know the worth of one single drop of blood, one single tear.
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
In the beginning there was faith-which is childish; trust-which is vain; and illusion-which is dangerous.We believed in God; trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been e...
We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.Never shall I forget that smoke.Never shall I forget the small faces of the childre...
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.
Some stories are true that never happened.
Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
My faceless neighbor spoke up:Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.I exploded:What do you care what he said? Would you want us to...
It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.